Roosevelt Theatre
842 S. Main Street,
Los Angeles,
CA
90015
842 S. Main Street,
Los Angeles,
CA
90015
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Rays was advertised at the 842 S. Main address.
Here are some more city directory listings for this address. Does your source for Ray’s Garden give the address? I’d like to add it to my list if the address is given. LAT=Los Angeles Times Article…other dates are from los angeles city directories.
Miller’s [1914 LAT, 1915, 1916, 1920, 1925]
Triangle [1930]
Listed as the Roosevelt Theater in the 1939 city directory.
Here’s another USC photo dated 1917. You can see the sign pointing moviegoers to the theater:
http://tinyurl.com/2axnw3
There was a story in the LA Times about a theater robbery on April 12, 1931. The Triangle Theater was located at 832 S. Main in downtown Los Angeles. As this would wedge the theater in between the California at 810 and Millers at 842, I’m thinking that this may be an aka for Millers.
By 1919, Miller’s Theater was called Ray’s Garden, for reasons unknown.
The address of Miller’s Theatre was 842 S. Main Street. It was still in operation in 1924, when it and Miller’s California Theatre up the block were both taken over by Loew’s.
Miller’s Theatre can be seen at the far right (with a sunburst decorating its marquee) in this c1917 photograph from the USC digital archives. An ad for the theatre can also be seen on the wall of the tall building at the center of the picture. Before the USC site did away with its zoom feature it was possible to get a closer view of the marquee and see that it advertised “Wm. Fox Photoplays”.